I’ve been doing .NET performance workshops at the SDP for 4 years now, and this year I thought it was time for a change. The traditional workshop used to be about a variety of commercial performance measurement tools, such as the Visual Studio profiler, and unfortunately I wasn’t able to offer any labs, so it wasn’t really a hands-on workshop. This time I decided to rewrite 90% of the materials and focus only on ETW tools. Here’s the rough agenda of the workshop — I’m pretty happy with the results!

We had to duplicate the workshop to make sure everyone who registered gets a classroom seat with a computer to actually practice all of these scenarios. With five labs spanning at least 30% of the day, I think this workshop is considerably more effective than the previous format.

Why am I telling you all this? Well, first, if it sounds interesting, stay tuned for the next SDP (May 2015) — I’m definitely doing this workshop again. Also, if you were at the workshop, you can find here the labs and workshop materials.